You may have a point with certain scenes, but she's just standing up here. I think this is all part of what many fans said before the show even aired based on clips and photos etc - she doesn't look the part, but of course we told to "shut up" and "wait an see"...and lo and behold here we are, she's not up to it physically or from a straight acting standpoint.
To be fair to her a lot of why she's turned into a meme machine is not her fault, miscast, trerrible writing, awful script etc I mean none of the Elves actually look like Elves, - that's not her fault.
But as C Kent alluded to, they have to do better than what she's wearing there.
Oh I never said it was directly Morfydds fault. Only that primarily through inadequacies by directors, vfx teams etc, on Amazons side, they have let the viewers down by giving us Morfydd as they are now.
1. Her physique, the selling of movement on screen, could have been improved if they wanted her to be more believable in any physical work by getting her some training and putting her in stuff that had "weight" to it (again, look back at Ep 1 for those who aren't over the series already, look at how their large swords on their back just doesn't move and moves around so quickly as they turn, it's very clearly not a real sword with any weight to it). It's been very clear other than basic typical modern human civilized healthy status, she (and others, but as she's one of the main characters, she will get the core of it) couldn't do anything that would show she has any real strength (magical strength maybe, but it's shown as YOU the viewer must simply accept it and now shown which again doesn't sell the action/scene).
Antje (who played Faora) was sent off for training with the other big hitters (Henry and Michael) for Man of Steel, and her hits/strikes, etc sold the movements as it all carried weight. VFX can only do so much to create realisim and realistic views; the best VFX has something in place that in the real world that is captured that helps with stuff like the physics of it all that it can't replace without doing it entirely in CG. Look at the scene where Steppenwolf in the Snyder Cut walks over a puddle and interrogates the Atalantian soldier on the beech; that walk over that puddle along with the twig that moved from the feets movement, whilst possible to do in CG, would have been an absolute hassle to do entirely in VFX.
2. Face acting. This is the clearly the directors and creators fault. Morfydd should not have been told to "scowl" to show anger and rage or been allowed to use that to show anger and rage, or if it was her choice to do so to show such emotion, she should have done better. But, that's what we've been given. Look back at Cate's version and we saw that she acted with her eyes and voice. Sure, that's not something everyone can do. But given Morfydds height and frame (compared to everyone else on screen), this only makes it feel like she's a little barking chihuahua, instead of a force of nature by being one of the oldest elves in existence on Middle Earth, intelligence, wise and powerful hidden inside that small stature and frame. Instead, we get what amounts (visually) a little tantrum child instead. A little showing through every so often might have been fine, but unfortunately any moment Morfydd was asked to show emotion thus far, it's been done the same way; scowl.
But this is side tracking now. Will get back to the main topics of the series itself. Another 4-5 hours before next episode. Can't wait to find what they've messed up there visually.
aside from learning to talk!
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